Pic of the Day: The Creature from the Black Lagoon terrorizes Okinawa in this 1950s ad

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A towering Gill-Man coaxes residents of Okinawa into theaters to see Revenge of the Creature (1955). This pic comes from the Facebook group Universal Monsters and More and was posted by David Crouse, whose uncle snapped the photo while stationed in Okinawa in 1957/1958.

Like its predecessor – 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon – Revenge was shot in 3D and director by Jack Arnold (It Came From Outer Space, The Incredible Shrinking Man). The sequel also features the screen debut of Clint Eastwood in a small role as a lab technician.

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Pic of the Day: Italian poster for the cult favorite Trick or Treat (1986)

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A rock star is brought back from the dead when his final album is played backwards in 1986’s Trick or Treat. The horror flick was one of a slew of movies – both high brow (Blue Velvet, Manhunter, Crimes of Hearts) and low (King Kong Lives, The Cat’s Eye, Maximum Overdrive) – shot in North Carolina for Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis before his De Laurentiis Entertainment Group went bankrupt in 1988.

Trick or Treat features early work from legendary cinematographer Robert Elswit (Nightcrawler, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and several films for Paul Thomas Anderson) and an uncredited dialogue polish from Final Destination scribes Glen Morgan and James Wong.

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Shot Behind the Shot: Key Largo (1948)

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A set-up on John Huston’s 1948 noir Key Largo for a scene in which a centenarian Native American woman bums a cigarette off Humphrey Bogart’s vagabond ex-army captain. The film marked the final of four pairings of Bogart and wife Lauren Bacall.

Released the same year as Huston and Bogart’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo finds Bogart and gangster Edward G. Robinson squaring off in a Florida hotel besieged by a hurricane.

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Pic of the Day: Mondo poster for Green Room (2016)

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Prints of Oliver Barrett’s new poster for Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015) will be released today by Mondo. The time of the sale will be announced on Mondo’s Twitter feed.

To read more about the making of the film, check out this interview I did with Green Room cinematographer Sean Porter (Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, 20th Century Women) for Filmmaker Magazine.

 

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Pic of the Day: Thai poster for Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986)

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Stone’s Oscar winner for Best Picture was based partly on his own experiences in Vietnam from 1967-1968 – beginning when the filmmaker was just 21 years old. Stone’s official website features a few photos taken during his tour, including the shot below.

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Shot Behind the Shot: Doctor Strange (2016)

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The set-up behind Doctor Strange’s leap through a hospital supply closet portal. For more on the movie’s visual effects wizardry, check out this host of interviews with the film’s effects crew over at Art of VFX.

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Pic of the day: German poster for Chinatown (1974)

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American artist Richard Amsel, best known for his original Raiders of the Lost Ark poster, crafted this German ad for the release of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974).

Read the third draft of Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning screenplay here. Below, check out Towne’s opening scene between private eye Jack Nicholson and cuckolded husband Burt Young below:

 

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On the set of HBO’s Westworld (2016)

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A gallery of behind the scenes images from the first season of HBO’s Westworld, which was shot on Super 35mm with Arri film cameras, Cooke prime lenses, and Fujinon zooms.

To read more about the making of the sci/western hybrid, check out these features from Filmmaker Magazine, American Cinematographer Magazine, ICG Magazine, and Kodak. All the images are courtesy of these sources.

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